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Raised clay sumo dohyō with a straw-bale circle beneath a suspended roof at the 2006 Osaka tournament

Dohyō

A dohyō is sumo’s prepared contest area: a marked ring, built surface, ritual setting, and decisive boundary whose form varies by context.

Crowded Ryōgoku Kokugikan with a raised sumo ring beneath the suspended roof

Great Sumo Tournaments (Honbasho)

A guide to honbasho, the six official annual Grand Sumo tournaments that determine championships, records, promotion, and demotion in professional sumo.

Two professional Sumo wrestlers grappling on the dohyo at Ryogoku Kokugikan

Sumo

Sumo is a Japanese wrestling tradition encompassing professional tournaments, amateur competition, stable life, ritual performance, and a long history of public spectacle.